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Smokestacks and bridge of a steamboat docked at Jackson Square on the ...

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The Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepost 45.7 on ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Timothy McDowell (left), USAF MSGT Timothy Lane...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Gulport (ANGCRTC) State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SMSGT David H. Lipp, USAF Release Statu... More

Biloxi, Miss., April 24, 2014 – Children tour the Mississippi Recove...

The original finding aid described this as: Date Taken: 2014-04-24 11:27:57 UTC Photographer Name: FEMA News Photo Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Junior Rangers Get Good Things - Public Domain image, National Parks G...

Junior Rangers that participate in the Junior Ranger Day at the Visitor Center not only learn a lot, but get good stuff too!

Scene near the Mangum Mound, an ancient burial mound located at milepo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Airman Basic Mariano Pacada, 334th Training Squadron

Airman Basic Mariano Pacada, 334th Training Squadron student, assists Carl Washington, Area 7 athlete, with decorating his hat during the Special Olympics Mississippi 2018 Summer Games at the Olympic Village at... More

Display of potions at the Yellow Fever Martyrs Church and Museum in Ho...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Sisters of Mercy at St. Joseph's Catholic Church were front and center in the care of victims of a virulent yellow fever outbreak in 1... More

Used bathtubs and sinks, on display and for sale, along a road between...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Detail; DeSoto Discovering the Mississippi River in 1541.

Detail; DeSoto Discovering the Mississippi River in 1541. Public domain photograph related to US National Parks, Nature, conservation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Quinquanpolix, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

"This engraving is a Dutch satire on John Law of Lauriston, promoter of the Mississippi Company and other bubble schemes of the year 1720; it is No. 21 in vol. i. of "Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid", a colle... More

Illinois River Road - Father Jacques Marquette

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Father Jacques Marquette talks to a native tribe next to the Mississippi River. Location: Location: Mississippi River, Illinois Status... More

The Mississippi / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Shows trees, animals, and names of the Indian nations. Pen-and-ink and watercolor; detached from paper and mounted on cloth backing. "This is the copy of a sketch of the Mississippi Ri... More

Item 135; Northern Mexico to New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi River, 18t...

Item 135; Northern Mexico to New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi River, 18th century.

Item 153; Mississippi River and New Orleans town sketch, 18th century.

Item 153; Mississippi River and New Orleans town sketch, 18th century.

Item 282; Mouth of Mississippi to Florida, 18th century.

Item 282; Mouth of Mississippi to Florida, 18th century.

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi ...

2nd State. [Blueprint is 3rd State] Colonial America. See English translation in Senex's New General Atlas, 1721, dedicated to Wm. Law. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.... More

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi]: dr...

Covers United States from Rio Grande River to Hudson River. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Item 46 in LC Kohl exhibition, Mar. to June 1993. Phillips. Maps of America. Includes notes. Inset: C... More

De eklips der zuider zon doet veele in't duister zitten veroorzaakt do...

"This engraving is a Dutch satire on the failure of the South Sea Company, Mississippi Company, and bubble schemes of Jonn Law and others, 1720..." (Source: Stephens) Title translated: [The eclipse of the south... More

De inventeur der windnegotie, op zyn zegekar, British Cartoon Print

"This engraved satire on the Mississippi Company and other financial bubbles of 1720 is No. 55 in vol. i. of "Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid", a collection of Dutch satires on these schemes..." (Source: Step... More

A new map of the north parts of America claimed by France under ye nam...

Relief shown pictorially. Phillips. Maps of America. Includes notes and ill. of "The Indian Fort Sasquesahanok." Insets: The harbour of Annapolis Royal -- A map of ye mouth of Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi] and ... More

A map of Louisiana and of the river Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi] : th...

Relief shown pictorially. From: A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world, 1721. Phillips. Maps of America. Includes no... More

A Map of Louisiana and of the River Mississippi.

Colonial America. This map, taken from the New General Atlas, 1721, is dedicated to Mr. Law. It is a translation of the French map of Delisle, published in 1718. Maps of the Miss. River Exhibit no. 10. Availabl... More

Plan du fort projetteʾ au nouveau Bilocxy.

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Carte du Mexique et de la Floride : des terres angloises et des Isles ...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Coupe et profil de la redoute de Rosalie au Natchez prise sur la ligne...

Relief shown pictorially. Two sheets mounted together. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes "Plan de la cave."

Accurata delineatio celeberrimae regionis Ludovicianae vel Gallice Lou...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Carte de la Louisiane cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi] et pais v...

Covers United States west of Rio Grande River. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris. Phillips. Maps of America. Includes notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ima... More

Map of the country about the Mississippi.

Not drawn to scale. Title from verso. Manuscript, pen and ink. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Shows area from Lake Erie to the mouth of the Ohio River. Also mounted on sheet, in same handwriting as... More

Le transport du grand soleil - Public domain dedication image

Native porters transporting the tribal leader whom they worshipped as the sun. Illus. in: Histoire de la Louisiane, contenant la découverte de ce vaste pays; sa description géographique; un voyage dans les terr... More

A Plan of West Florida, the Isle of Orleans, and some parts of the Spa...

Scale 1:760,320; 12 miles to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows the present state of Mississippi, southeastern Louisiana, and Mobile Bay. Includes note on navigation and "This line being propo... More

Louisiana, as formerly claimed by France, now containing part of Briti...

Scale ca. 1:10,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Shows longitude west from London and Ferro. From the London magazine. v. 34, June 1765, p. 276-277. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 724 Available also thro... More

Païs cedés, sheet Ist, containing the coast of Louisiana and Florida

Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carte de la coste de la province de la Louisiane et des bouches du Mic...

Scale ca. 1:700,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Soundings shown in fathoms. Shows the coast from "Baye de l'Ascencion," Louisiana to "Baye St. Joseph," Florida. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789,... More

Plan of Fort Rosalia. - Public domain vintage map

Oriented with North to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[A Native American presents map to Europe?] / R.R. inv & fect.

Print shows the interior of a temple, a Native bowing on one knee and presenting a map to a female figure (Liberty?) sitting on a throne on a pedestal and holding a long staff topped with a liberty cap; a cheru... More

A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, an...

Scale ca. 1:1,270,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Includes descriptive and historical notes. Supplements the author's A topographical descri... More

A Plan of the coast of part of west Florida & Louisiana : including th...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and...

Scale ca. 1:1,270,000. LC copy annotated in ink. One annotation shows "Indian line as of treaty in 1784." Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Includes historical a... More

Accurata delineatio celeberrimæ regionis Ludovicianæ vel Gallice Louis...

Print shows in a cartouche a semi-nude female figure standing on a winged orb which rests on a pedestal bearing the title inscription. She holds to her right a cornucopia from which spills coins; on the left si... More

A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and...

Scale ca. 1:1,300,000. Hand colored. Annotated in ink. One annotation shows where "Genr. Wayne defeated the Indians Augt. 20, 1794." Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Lo... More

Partie occidentale de la Virginie, Pensylvanie, Maryland, et Caroline ...

Scale ca. 1:2,500,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Translation of Thomas Hutchins' New map of the western part of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Mar... More

Herhando [sic] de Soto. - Public domain portrait engraving

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To the citizens of the State of Mississippi Cotton Planter. No. 1. Fel...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 85, Folder 16.

[Map of the Rigolet and the mouth of the Pearl River, Louisiana and Mi...

Relief shown by hachures. Places names in Spanish. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink. Watermarks: Horn in a shield surmounted by a crown over the letters GR. From the papers of Vicente Sebas... More

To the citizens of the State of Mississippi. Cotton planter, No. II. T...

Frances Benjamin Johnston - Gloucester, Natchez, Adams County, Mississ...

Title from photographer's inventory. Originally known as Bellevue. Built by David Williams family. Winthrop Sargent, first governor of Miss., bought it from the Williams in 1808. Unusual feature is dry moat aro... More

The U.S.M. Mississippi passenger steamer, engraving, Library of Congre...

Wreckage of large riverboat in bayou swamp. Wood engraving by W. Redding after drawing by Chas. Graham. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly. Reference copy may be in LOT 4427. This record contains unverified, old data f... More

Sauvages du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi] / Lith. par Brocas; des.e pa...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Brocas.

Thomas Jefferson to Mississippi House of Representatives, March 2, 180...

Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Thomas Jefferson to Mississippi Territory Speaker of the House, March ...

Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Thomas Jefferson to Mississippi House of Representatives, April 3, 180...

Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Thomas Jefferson to Legislative Council of Mississippi Territory, Dece...

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[Lewis and Clark map, with annotations in brown ink by Meriwether Lewi...

Pen and ink. Author information provided by Prof. Donald Jackson, 1/12/1977. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. See also: pp. 97-103 of Allen's Passage through the garden... More

... The following resolution passed the House of representatives on We...

Guardian of Freedom extra Frankfort November 25, 1803.; Transportation.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Print... More

Map of the Mississippi Country - Public domain old map

"Fortifications Map File" Plans of Military Forts

[Mississippi river, with Ohio, Rock, Iowa River de Moins, Missouri, Wh...

Title devised by cataloger. Pen-and-ink, mounted on cloth. Includes 7 "Indian boundary lines." In lower left corner in pencil: 91. On verso: Transferred from Interior Department, Office of Indian Affairs. Jan. ... More

Map of the Washita river in Louisiana from the Hot Springs to the conf...

Oriented with North to the upper left corner. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Brass Trade Ring - GRPO 14703 - Public Domain image, National Parks Ga...

Plain band with crude markings scratched on inner surface. The ring diameter measures 1.9 cm. Similar bands with interior markings are reported at the 1792-1800 NWC site of Fort George in Alberta and the circa ... More

[Map of an area from Pearl River to Bay St. Louis in Spanish West Flor...

Public domain scan of a plan, map, diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[Cadastral map of a portion of Feliciana District, Spanish West Florid...

Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink. Watermarks: L Munn 1804 and fleur-de-lis in a shield surmounted by a crown over the letters GR. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in:... More

[Cadastral map of an area along the Mississippi River from the United ...

Shows area in West Feliciana Parish. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Watermarks: Henry Aine and shell. From the papers of Vicente Seb... More

[Four plats on the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge 1805].

Relief shown by hachures on some sheets. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in: Vicente Sebastián Pinta... More

[Plan of Baton Rouge and adjoining properties on the Mississippi River...

Cadastral map. Relief shown by hachures. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink and pencil; unfinished. Oriented with north toward the left. Watermarks: J Whatman 1803 and fleur-de-lis in a shiel... More

[Map of area from Rio Iberville to Thompson's Creek along the Mississi...

Cadastral map. Some unclaimed lots also shown. Relief shown by hachures. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil. Watermarks: J Whatman 1803, D & C Blauw, and letters D C B... More

Mississippi Territory and Georgia - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal C...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Thomas Fitzpatrick, et al to Williams, December 24, 1807, Mississippi ...

Mississippi Territory Legislature Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Peter Bruin, March 1, 1808, Mississippi Territory Resolutions

Mississippi Territory Resolutions Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

George Poindexter, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile

Title devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Trimmed to image. Dexter, 440 Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : Nation... More

Williams to Mississippi Territory Legislature, March 1, 1808, Dissolut...

Dissolution Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of representatives. Called by...

To the inhabitants of the State of Florida ... Fulwar Skipwith. St. Fr...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14, Folder 1a.

The state of Mississippi and Alabama territory.

Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. "Shallus Sc." From: Samuel Lewis atlas, 1817. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Map of an area of Spanish West Florida from Lake Maurepas to Pensacola...

Depths shown by soundings. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink and pencil; unfinished. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in: Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Surveyor General o... More

A chart of the internal part of Louisiana : including all the hitherto...

Scale ca. 1:2,450,000. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. "Plate II." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes. AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2

Prospectus for publishing by subscription A map of the state of Louisi...

map from "Travels, or an inland voyage through the States of New York,...

This image has been taken from scan 000242 from "Travels, or an inland voyage through the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, and through the territories of Indiana, Louisi... More

Map of the Mississippi River from its source to the mouth of the Misso...

A map of Lewis and Clark's track, across the western portion of North ...

Scale ca. 1:4,300,000. Relief shown by hachures. Meridian: London and Washington. From Lewis, Meriwether, History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, 1814. Available also through th... More

A map of Lewis and Clark's track across the western portion of North A...

Scale ca. 1:4,400,000. Relief shown by hachures. Meridian: London and Washington. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

[View of the battle near Chalmettes plantation, Jan. 8, 1815]

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the battlefield printed above a key identifying the essential features, with the Mississippi River in the foreground. This print is the key to illustration filed under: PGA - D... More

Extract from the proceedings of the President and selectmen of the cit...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 85, Folder 4.

To the "Natchez Volunteer Rifle Corps." Attention! ... Our late brave ...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 85, Folder 5.

Drawing Showing the Proposed Lighthouse at the Mouth of the Mississipp...

Records Relating to the Lighthouse at the Mississippi River, Louisiana Public domain photograph of a technical diagram, architecture, plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

One of 32 murals on the Mississippi River floodwall by Robert Dafford,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This one depicts the moment in 1799 that is considered the founding of Vicksburg, when Rev. Newitt Vick, a Virginia-born preacher, and... More

Falls of St. Anthony on the Mississippi.

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A map of Mexico, Louisiana, and the Missouri Territory : including als...

Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes, ill., and tables of coordinates and other statistical data. Imperfect: Backed... More

Plano borrador de la parte de la Florida Occidental contenida entre el...

Depths shown by soundings. Pen-and-ink and pencil; unfinished. Watermark: 1808 J Whatman. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in: Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Surveyor General of Spanish West ... More

Map of Mississippi : constructed from the surveys in the General Land ...

Prime meridian: London and Washington. "Entered according to Act of Congress the 10th of September 1819." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Raree - show on the banks of the Mississippi, or The gentle European a...

Print shows a Native man wearing European clothing and a native headdress, standing between a group of Natives sitting on the ground on the right and a platform or stage, on the left, on which three Europeans, ... More

Map of "countries bordering on the Mississippi and Missouri", in Henry...

Illus. in: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Journal of a tour...of Missouri, London, Printed for Sir R. Philips & Co., 1821. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card traci... More

map from "Narrative Journal of Travels, through the North Western regi...

This image has been taken from scan 000010 from "Narrative Journal of Travels, through the North Western regions of the United States, extending from Detroit through the great chain of American Lakes, to the so... More

Country drained by the Mississippi /

Relief shown by hachures. Sheets contain profile diagram. From: James, Edwin. Account of an expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains. 1823. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ... More

Melrose Carriage House and Stable

Carriage House and Stable at the Melrose estate

Military construction in the 1800's, Gulf Islands National Seashore, 2...

From 1825 to the eve of the civil war in 1981, military construction projects on Pensacola Bay involved hundreds of enslaved African-Americans. Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas are monuments to the skill and toi... More

Military construction in the 1800's, Gulf Islands National Seashore, 2...

From 1825 to the eve of the civil war in 1981, military construction projects on Pensacola Bay involved hundreds of enslaved African-Americans. Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas are monuments to the skill and toi... More

Melrose Smokehouse, National Parks gallery

Melrose Smokehouse Public domain photograph by National Parks Administration, nature conservation, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Melrose Front Drive Cypress Trees

Cypress trees along the Melrose entrance drive Public domain photograph of a pond, trees in the park, reflection in the water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carriage in Front of Melrose - Public Domain image, National Parks Gal...

Horse drawn carriage in front of the Melrose mansion

Funeral honors. Washington, Miss. Aug. 12, 1826. In carrying into effe...